Research Article
Potential Applications of Some Indigenous Bacteria Isolated from Polluted Areas in the Treatment of Brewery Effluents
Table 2
Morphological and biochemical characteristics of selected bacterial isolates.
| Test | EF-01 | SL-10 | SO-25 |
| Surface | Smooth | Smooth | Rough | Colony shape | Circular | Irregular | Irregular | Color | Greenish yellow | white | White | Margin | Entire edge | Filamentous | Lobate | Elevation | Flat | Convex | Raised | Cell shape | Rod | Rod | Rod | Gram stain | − | − | + | KOH test | + | + | − | Endospore | − | − | + | Catalase test | + | + | + | Oxidase test | + | + | + | O/F test | F+ | O+ | − | Suggested genus | Aeromonas sp. | Pseudomonas sp. | Bacillus sp. |
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O: oxidative, F: fermentative, +: positive, −: negative, SL: isolated from sludge, EF: isolated from effluent, and SO: isolated from soil.
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